Legal separation is little different from divorce, except that you're not divorced. If you plan on divorcing him, then do that - it will be less expensive than filing legal separation now and divorce later. I looked this up yesterday and found out the same thing. If D is going to happen, no sense in seperation because it just adds to the expense.... Thanks!
Do give the address in NM to the state office that is paying you aid- they deserve to be reimbursed for the money the state is paying to support hIS kids. As soon as I find an address for him I plan to give it to them. But as of right now, I have no idea what his mothers address is. When the tax refund comes it will be in both your names (if you filed jointly). How will you get him to sign it over to you? Do you still have an account with both names on it that you could deposit it into? Actually since we filed last year (online e-file) I was able to do that again, this year without his signature. I had the money set to go into my bank account (we haven't had a joint one since we got seperated anyway). But long story short, as I figured they took it for back support and I just got my chunk of it today from the child support.
Incidentally, what did he get fired for? Drugs? Or just flakiness? He was told that he wasn't allowed to work for Schneider until he got a mental evaluation. He was having all that trouble with depression and whatnot, and it was effecting his work... so....
